Title from caption. Photograph shows a thermometer in a small wooden box and a rain gauge in front of a building in Nenana, Alaska, on June 29th, 1917. Caption also reads: "No.47. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.".
Title taken from caption: "Sayre taking soil sample on Katmai ash flat." View of National Geographic expedition member Jasper Dean Sayre using small torch and knife to take soil samples. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: The Steamer "Queen" frequently ran north to and from Alaska and the Northwest. John Muir, who would later become a member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska (scientific) expedition, noted boarding the...
Title taken from caption. Accompanying note identifies the men as H. M. Wetherbee & a friend. Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-748". 5 x 8 cyanotype (blue) print.
Title taken from caption. View of Jasper Dean Sayre taking the temperature of Fumarole XI, with steam is rising up in front of Sayre and his backpack is propped up behind him holding his equipment. Photo taken at what was later designated as...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Title taken from caption. "North Lat. 59° - 35 in. West Long. 148° - 15 in." Accompanying note reads: "Men taking readings with a [sextant] aboard ship". Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-750". 5 x 8 cyanotype (blue) print.
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title by cataloguer. "Pinniped" is the scientific name for the seal family. The fur seal belongs to a particular group called "otariidae", which are pinnipeds with external ears, also called "eared seals". There are thirteen species of...
Title taken from caption: "Fumarole XXXIII which registered 440 degrees C., showing thermocouple in the narrow crack. The ground here was too hot for the instruments which were rested on the spade and pack as seen in the picture." View National...